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Mademuhas
Mademuhas

Reputation: 21

Django timezone.now() giving the time when i started the server

I'm using timezone.now() (django.utils impor timezone) to set the initial date of my model. But, the timezone.now() is fixed to the time when i set the server up, and doesnt change. How can i fix this?

I wanna that the timezone.now() return the datetime when the user is creating an object and not the time when i run the server.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 659

Answers (2)

nitsujri
nitsujri

Reputation: 1601

The commonly used model extensions is used for this particular case with TimeStampedModel

from django_extensions.db.models import TimeStampedModel

class MyModel(TimeStampedModel):
    pass

The migration will create created and updated that get handled exactly as you would expect.

Upvotes: 0

willeM_ Van Onsem
willeM_ Van Onsem

Reputation: 477308

You should pass a reference to the function to it, so:

from django.db import models
from django.utils import timezone


class MyModel(models.Model):
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)

But likely you want to use auto_now_add=True [Django-doc], which will also make the field non-editable:

from django.db import models


class MyModel(models.Model):
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

Upvotes: 0

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